Linderhof

Gardening, Cooking and Decorating on the Prairie of Kansas

Welcome to Linderhof, our 1920's home on the prairie, where there's usually something in the oven, flowers in the garden for tabletops and herbs in the garden for cooking. Where, when company comes, the teapot is always on and there are cookies and cakes to share in the larder.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Cherubs in the Garden Reprise

As there are faeries in the garden at Linderhof, so are there cherubs. We're on the garden tour next week which means that I'm busy out in the garden -- too busy, in fact, to take pictures and so -- because I just couldn't miss Artie's Share a Garden Sunday. In order to be in two places at one time, I decided to participate in Chari's Sunday Favorites.

This Lines From Linderhof was originally posted June 5, 2008.

Somehow gardens and cherubs go together. What is a garden without a cherub on top of a birdbath or peeking around a garden plant?

Linderhof's garden is no exception and we have several cherubs in our garden. This little guy spends the winter in the breakfast room for I love to have garden ornaments indoors in the winter. He's armless but has character and a sweet face. He presides over the perennial gardens on the side of the house.

This is a small cherub in the birdbath between the drives. He's old, started life as a fountain and his base is cracked. But he brings a smile to my face each morning as I make the breakfast coffee and peer out at him.This cherub is a sham. A very inexpensive Hobby lobby purchase but he looks as good as his concrete brothers! The base is real but he is not and his kingdom is the lilies of the valley below!What would gardens be without cherubs? The gardens at Linderhof would be a much duller place, that's for sure.

17 comments:

Oh Martha, repeats are fine! Just fine! :) This is beautiful - I love that fountain! Your garden is spectacular. I wish I lived closer so I could take some of your cuttings and divisions! :) LOL! Can't wait to see pictures from your secret garden tours! Thanks for taking part in this weeks Share a Garden Sunday! It wouldn't be the same without you!

So happy to have you join in with Sunday Favorites this week, my friend! Thank you for the lovely note that you left at my place!

Martha...I totally agree with you! What is a garden without cherubs? Hehe! I really do have a "thing" for these little heavenly beings...I haven't found a cherub yet that I haven't fallen in love with! Ohhh...and you have some darling ones!!! Such pretty gardens too, my friend! Thank you so much for sharing this post with all of us...it was new to me and such a joy to visit!!!

Have a super Sunday, my friend!ChariPS...best wishes to you on your Garden tours...can't wait to see photos!!!

Loved seeing your cherubs out in the garden! You're right, too--the Hobby Lobby cherub looks every bit as authentic as the "real McCoy".

You make me want to go photograph my own garden...oh, which reminds me: I've got to get out there and dig up the deceased Japanese maple and plant that new euphorbia before the temps hit the 90's they're predicting today!